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jar the jam? sell it on your channel? I just bought coffee from a youtube couple living in homestead in Panama!!!!
We finally got a place out in the country a few years ago, and we have some blackberry brambles around the tree line. I've been in love with the flowers and the berries themselves, hoping to have more grow in the future. Now I'm trying to plan my first garden and I'm so happy to find your channel! Thanks so much for sharing!
I love your life style congratulations for all that hard beautiful work
Saludos desde Chapel Hill,NC
I think those are pale cone flower, which are fairly rare because there aren't many grasslands left.
Some of the best spaghetti squash I ever ate was some that "accidentally" got planted when throwing out remnants of spaghetti squash in the compost pile. The squash bugs never looked for it there!!! Good video! I've come to really appreciate your little jaunts!
Building altars! I love that phrase. I wholeheartedly agree that we can consciously choose to see through rose-colored glasses (even as we acknowledge what the world looks like through many other lenses). Yet again, a beautiful life observation deftly woven into concise information and delivered with warmth and calming energy. Your channel has become such a valuable refuge for me during my "recharge the mental/emotional battery" moments – plus my garden has never looked better. Thank you for that!
I don't know why, but this video really blessed me. Thank you for sharing a little part of your heart and loves with us. God bless you.
This reminded me once again of picking blackberries in my youth. I lived in a fairly large city but there was an undeveloped field and patch of woods in the neighborhood. It was an old neighborhood and almost every yard had at least one fruit tree. But the blackberries in that field belonged to just us kids. It was like free snacks. I remember once my friend and I picked a whole bread bag full and gave them to a nice old lady in the neighborhood. She gave us each a quarter. We knew we shouldn't keep the money so we picked another bag of berries with quarters in bottom and left the bag on her doorstep. Good times. I live in the country now in what used to be a farm field and there are invasive Japanese wine berries everywhere. Yum!
Can you do a 30 min audio video of the sounds of the critters in your forest in the evening?
I was looking for something to keep the soil out of my hair so i bought a hat it gets on my nerves soooo now i am thinking about buying some scarf s where did you get your Jess i could rock that look we use to wear bandana s when i was young
The woods at our new property are full of blackberry flowers right now, I'm hoping that we can beat the deer and turkeys to it and get enough for blackberry jam.
You should dig up a few plants and put them around your house! 🙂
Your the absolute sweetest your story brought tears to my eyes♡ my family and me are on this new journey to be self sufficient ♡ your my inspiration
The remembrance of your past is something you keep close to your heart. Therefore you go back to it for inspiration! It's something we do to never forget how we have gotten to where we are now. I have done this and have fallen back and now making my comeback. umm.
Hey Jesse, wild blackberries grow all over Humboldt county. We also have a highly invasive variety called Himalayan blackberries that Luther Burbank introduced here which has become a scourge but a tasty scourge. I know that you are excited about the thornless blackberries that you planted in the kids garden but they taste like cough syrup. Nothing beats the taste of wild blackberries!
I found your channel along with so many others during the pandemic looking for skills, advice, and maybe just something good to focus on. I’m working through some of the older videos now and just had to say that blackberries taught me to can too. We’ve been fighting invasive blackberries in our suburban backyard for years but I wouldn’t let my husband chop them back this spring BECAUSE THEY’RE FOOD! 🙂 So they provided us gallons of frozen berries, cobbler, pie, jam, snacks, and they gave me a place to get away from all the people in my living room for a little while every day. It would seem that blackberries can be a gateway to many good things. And like you, I took a ridiculous amount of joy in the volunteer squash plants that randomly appeared in my raised beds. I loved the other things I planted too and was grateful that everything was growing. But the random volunteers gave me a lot of joy. Thank you for blessing us.
Off topic question… Where do you get your head bands from. I love them!
Y'all only have 4 acres? You make such a good use of your land
Jess you are such an inspiration! I see so much of myself in you! You are living the dream and desire I still have! I too dream of a day I will have my own little piece of heaven here on earth. I still have wild berries from 2019 in my freezer…good thing too since last year was not a productive one. God bless you for my desire to not give up. I am in my late 50's but I am still that romantic dreamer. Hoping and praying that one day I have my heart's desire! God bless and keep you, until next time!!
Can you use the run off water of the roof to irrigate the crops✔️
OMG your kiddo is SOOOO adorable!!!
Way to ruin a perfect evening. A Bath?!!!! Thank you for sharing your dream with us.
2 years ago I went to a favorite area to pick blackberries with my springer and she bumped into white faced hornet nest while I was picking nearby. We were both stung multiple times, be careful. The dog stays home when I’m picking now.